"we're all going on a......"
Just as the revolutionaries thought they had quelled Comrade Sir Reginald’s counter-revolution by the photocopier, their own forcible overthrow of the previously established social and economic order collapsed.
Passion rather than brains had ruled the rebellion. The end of July is not a good time to replace one ruling class with another. The revolutionaries were due their holiday payments and had long been yearning for their well-earned rest and as their eyes were on the beach and not on the cause, the bob’sbarnablog management team surreptitiously crawled back into power, just as space fills up the holes between molecules.
August is a month for stocktaking and taking stock and the time for the one and only bob’sbarnablog Roadshow (fanfare), which is heading yet again to the Parque Nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido (August 7-15) and thereafter to Edinburgh, Scotland (August 17-24). Hopefully the experience will be unforgettable and not one we wish to forget.
So, until the end of the month or the beginning of the following one, bob’sbarnablog bids you farewell, dearest readers, with an unfulfillable quote from Jane Austen.
"What delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and vigour. Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are young men to rocks and mountains? Oh! what hours of transport we shall spend! And when we do return, it shall not be like other travellers, without being able to give one accurate idea of anything. We will know where we have gone--we will recollect what we have seen. Lakes, mountains, and rivers shall not be jumbled together in our imaginations; nor when we attempt to describe any particular scene, will we begin quarrelling about its relative situation. Let our first effusions be less insupportable than those of the generality of travellers."
Pride and Prejudice (Ch. 27)
Passion rather than brains had ruled the rebellion. The end of July is not a good time to replace one ruling class with another. The revolutionaries were due their holiday payments and had long been yearning for their well-earned rest and as their eyes were on the beach and not on the cause, the bob’sbarnablog management team surreptitiously crawled back into power, just as space fills up the holes between molecules.
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August is a month for stocktaking and taking stock and the time for the one and only bob’sbarnablog Roadshow (fanfare), which is heading yet again to the Parque Nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido (August 7-15) and thereafter to Edinburgh, Scotland (August 17-24). Hopefully the experience will be unforgettable and not one we wish to forget.
So, until the end of the month or the beginning of the following one, bob’sbarnablog bids you farewell, dearest readers, with an unfulfillable quote from Jane Austen.
"What delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and vigour. Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are young men to rocks and mountains? Oh! what hours of transport we shall spend! And when we do return, it shall not be like other travellers, without being able to give one accurate idea of anything. We will know where we have gone--we will recollect what we have seen. Lakes, mountains, and rivers shall not be jumbled together in our imaginations; nor when we attempt to describe any particular scene, will we begin quarrelling about its relative situation. Let our first effusions be less insupportable than those of the generality of travellers."
Pride and Prejudice (Ch. 27)
posted by Bob @ 11:03 am
4 Comments:
At 10:05 pm,
Dave said…
The management team at LIAEMFC will miss the stimulation of reading your entries for the next month.
We have determined that the writer will do his best to meet your standards of excellence in your absence.
At 10:21 am,
Bob said…
The bob'sbarnablog management team thanks the management team at LIAEMFC for its support and interest and hopes to return refreshed and with renewed vigour to face the challenges of the forthcoming autumn campaign.
At 11:08 am,
Dave said…
You must be back from holiday by now.
The management team at LIAEMFC wish you to know that they are missing the stimulation of reading your blog.
At 12:00 pm,
Bob said…
Hello Dave. Thanks for your interest. Yes, I’ve been back for a couple of weeks now. I’ve been taking looks at your blog but haven’t written anything on mine for several reasons. I:
1) Have been away on a job and would have found it awkward to sneak away from customers to write the blog.
2) Have been doing a laborious job – which took up a lot of time.
3) Have had some family matters to deal with.
4) Have been wondering whether to continue – or at least have decided to change a few things such as make it a lot more personal. I’ll explain why in a post when the phone stops ringing.
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